Staff raised concerns about widespread availability of vaccinations at the institution while other frontline workers in the community go without Some Oregon Health & Science University employees expressed concern this week as COVID-19 vaccines became ...
8 Jan 2021 - Jessica Pollard
Front-end staff worry plexiglass dividers won't protect them during holiday crowd levels It’s been eight months since an employee at Portland's Pearl District Whole Foods on Northwest Couch Street and Twelfth Avenue died from complications relat ...
24 Dec 2020 - Jessica Pollard
A therapist, medical doctors, journalists and a firefighter are in the thick of today's crises A month of utter destruction caused by devastating wildfires. Four months of nightly standoffs with protesters standing up for Black lives and against poli ...
7 Oct 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Seniors have a diverse set of needs — and solutions — in the battle against loneliness For people over 50, the physical health impacts of loneliness are alarming. Social isolation can be as harmful to their health as smoking cigarettes, according to the C ...
7 Oct 2020 - Jessica Pollard
They join a citywide effort among grocery store employees demanding increased pay and better safety precautions during the pandemic When the coronavirus pandemic spurred citywide closures in early March, New Seasons Market provided its employees with “Tha ...
21 Aug 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Blanchet House in Old Town needs donations of water bottles to distribute to people experiencing homelessness as temperatures near 100 degrees over the next two days For the first time in the 130 days since Multnomah County commissioners declared a state ...
25 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
A bill passed during the special session could help the state's farmers while also sending fewer livestock to the Midwest for slaughter Food and meat processing plants are among workplaces seeing the greatest concentration of COVID-19 cases, both nat ...
12 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Some commit to staying inside until there’s a coronavirus vaccine, and some look to help In 1996, Portlander James Cox was teetering on the edge of death with his second terminal AIDS diagnosis. Healthy individuals usually have a T cell count of 500 to 1, ...
24 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
The coronavirus pandemic is changing the landscape of grief and end-of-life planning In the four months since biomedical researcher Nikki Walter died of cancer, her husband has had trouble sleeping through the night. Eric Walter has had to contend with hi ...
14 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Checks sent to state prisons were returned to the IRS, but Prison Policy Institute says incarcerated individuals need money at this time as well Prisoners in Oregon who received stimulus checks as a result of the CARES Act will never see their payments, a ...
3 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard